Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:15 -0400, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>> RTF wrote:
>>> Re-hi all,
>>>
>>> Last night I successfully (apparently) installed OpenSuse 10.2.  It was
>>> getting late and I let it run its course when I went to bed.  This
>>> morning it looked like the only thing I needed to do was set username
>>> and password but for some reason, it wasn't working.  In the interest of
>>> time and checking e-mail before I went to work, I went ahead and checked
>>> mail via Windows.  Tonight, I attempted to boot into OpenSuse but was
>>> confronted with the sign-on.  I tried what I normally would have used as
>>> a root username and password unsuccessfully.  The same with my normal
>>> username and password.  I have not set them but don't know how now to do
>>> that?  Any clues?  It is installed but I have not yet assigned a
>>> password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I
>>> have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular
>>> username and password.  :(
>> It's not exactly clear what you did, but it sounds like you just rebooted
>> the computer while it was asking for the username/password for the first
>> user. Not sure why "it wasn't working". So this means you have no user and
>> no password. You can't log in as root from the graphical user interface,
> 
> Root CAN log into the graphical interface, you need to type the name
> manually (as well as the root password).

Yup, you're right. Hadn't even actually tried it on openSUSE, as it is
almost always disabled these days.

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